WeeklyUpdates/2012-11-05
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Contents
- 1 All-hands Status Meeting Agenda
- 2 <meta>
- 2.1 Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)
- 2.1.1 Firefox
- 2.1.2 Platform
- 2.1.3 Services
- 2.1.4 Messaging
- 2.1.5 Mobile
- 2.1.6 IT
- 2.1.7 Release Engineering
- 2.1.8 QA
- 2.1.9 Automation & Tools
- 2.1.10 Security
- 2.1.11 Engagement
- 2.1.12 Support
- 2.1.13 Metrics
- 2.1.14 Evangelism
- 2.1.15 Labs
- 2.1.16 Apps
- 2.1.17 Developer Tools
- 2.1.18 Add-ons
- 2.1.19 Webdev
- 2.1.20 L10n
- 2.1.21 People Team
- 2.1.22 WebFWD
- 2.2 Foundation Updates
- 2.1 Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)
All-hands Status Meeting Agenda
Items in this section will be shared during the live all-hand status meeting.
Friends of the Tree
- 2,244 upvotes and high fives to the many Mozillians who answered questions in the reddit We Are Mozilla. Ask us Anything discussion on October 24. This was our largest reddit Q&A discussion since the Firefox 4 launch. Special thanks to Tanner Filip for organizing!
Upcoming Events
This Week
- Developer Ecosystem Work Week in Mountain View this week
- hot topics: MDN/Marketplace Developer Hub integration, reference apps for developers
Monday, 05 November
Tuesday, 06 November
Wednesday, 07 November
Thursday, 08 November
Friday, 09 November
MozFest, London (9-11th)
Saturday, 10 November
Zumba with NYC Marathon Team Firefox (Amie Tyrrel, Mary Colvig, Winnie Aoieong, Michael Coates and Ashley Sullivan) + Rowe Hoffer to raise funds for Sandy relief! Please join us for some fun and do some good for our friends in NYC and New Jersey :)
Buy Tickets here Date / Time: Saturday, November 10th / 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Location: www.studiomix.com - 1000 Van Ness, 3rd Floor. SF, CA 94109
Next Week
Product Status Updates (voice updates)
Firefox Desktop
Speaker Location: Mountain View
- Stub installer metrics landed, yay! (bug 802734) - Good teamwork from UX/Privacy/metrics/dev/rel-mgmt
- Social testing update (beta 4 out soon, help us find any last minute issues, etc.)
Firefox Mobile
Speaker Location:
Thunderbird
Speaker Location:
Older Branch Work
Speaker Location:
Webmaker
Speaker Location: Phone
- MozFest is this coming weekend - Nov 9-11 in London
- We will have a Webmaker track of sessions, Webmaker floor and Webmaker bar, where people come to make stuff. read more
- Launching at MozFest:
- Webmaker Badges - Earn badges for skills developed/demonstrated while you build Thimble projects. Things like the Image Wrangler, Clean Coder, Hyperlinker badges aggregate up to the HMTL Basics badge. Play around with and test out the beta version. Report bugs here.
- Popcorn Maker - a streamlined tool to help making interactive video even easier. Check out the early release. Coming soon - Popcorn badges!
Identity
Speaker Location:
Services
Speaker Location:
Firefox OS
Speaker Location:
Grow Mozilla
Speaker Location: Mountain View
Video of 'Designing your project for participation' community building workshop is available.
This week there are two more community building workshops.
- 'Identifying contributors' on Tuesday at 10 pacific (18:00 UTC)
- 'Measuring & evaluating' on Thursday at 10 pacific (18:00 UTC)
Dial-in information at links above.
MozCamp Asia Update
- Attendance: Please note that all staff who have been accepted to attend MozCamp have now been extended an invitation to register.
If you have any questions about your trip to MozCamp, please contact mozcamp@mozilla.com or find us at #mozcamp on IRC.
The 'Know Before You Go' training will be taking place this Friday (November 9th) at 11am Pacific either in person (in SF) or over Vidyo in 7B-Warfield. It will also be recorded for those of you who will not be able to attend the training.
Speakers
The limit is 3 minutes per speaker. It's like a lightning talk, but don't feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation.
Title | Presenter | Topic | Media | More Details |
---|---|---|---|---|
Security Champions | Curtis Koenig (remote) | Security Engagement | slides | Security Champions (Under Construction) - Meeting 6-Nov. 1pm PST in JK (vidyo/in person) |
An Apps Call to Action | Rick Fant | Apps & Marketplace | Developer Hub | Firefox Aurora Marketplace Firefox OS simulator |
Introducing New Hires
New Hire | Introduced by | Speaker location | Will be working on |
---|---|---|---|
Who is the new hire? | Who will be introducing that person? | From which office will that introduction be transmitted? | What will the new person be working on? |
Peter Dolanjski | Paxton Cooper | Mountain View, CA | Sr. Product Manager Firefox Mobile OS |
Michael Maslaney | Stephen Horlander | Mountain View, CA | Sr. Visual Designer |
Julien Wajsberg | David Scravaglieri | San Francisco, CA | Software Engineer |
Paul Adenot | Robert O'Callahan | Paris | Software Engineer |
Introducing New Interns
New Intern | Introduced by | Speaker location | Will be working on |
---|---|---|---|
Who is the new intern? | Who will be introducing that person? | From which office will that introduction be transmitted? | What will the new person be working on? |
Roundtable
<meta>
Notes and non-voice status updates that aren't part of the live meeting go here.
Status Updates By Team (*non-voice* updates)
Firefox
Platform
Services
Messaging
Mobile
IT
Release Engineering
QA
Test Execution
WebQA
- Affiliates
- 2012-10-30 release was succesful
- Of special interest Affiliates now now able to link back to a personal website and have it displayed on the leaderboard display website on leaderboard - bug 760631
- AMO
- Mozillians
- Shipped a new release with search rewrite and more
- Mozilla.com
- MDN
- Socorro
- [ttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced;target_milestone=25;product=Socorro;list_id=4832592 Milestone 25] successfully released
- Django rewrite is getting there; still needs AppSec review, but it's passing Web QA's automation
- B2G
- have Zac's tests (https://github.com/zacc/gaia-ui-tests) up and running (4 are skipped, for now, pending updates), and reporting to our CI: http://10.250.5.166:8080/
- did some digging, and discovered there's a synthetic-event library in JS (so, might not need A-team to re-implement gesture support in Python/Marionette?): https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/master/apps/calculator/test/integration/atoms/hold.js
- good possibility of sharing code + testing responsibilities
- temporarily blocked by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=801703, and hope to get a fix or one-off build tomorrow, to progress further
- Bouncer
- Release is scheduled for either today or tomorrow
- Bug 804347 - Sentry/Bouncer location and reporting improvements
QA Community
Automation & Tools
Security
Engagement
PR
- Mozilla: Don't Abandon Web For Native Mobile Apps
- Mozilla Exec Fires Back at HTML5 App Barbs
- Mozilla Busts HTML5 Myths
- HTML5 Does Have A Mobile Future: Mozilla's Chris Heilmann Goes Mythbusting